Noted documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma, whose controversial "Final Solution" on the 2002 Gujarat riots won many international awards, is making a film on the lives of common people across the world post-9/11 terror attacks in the US.
"I am now working on a film looking at how the lives of common people have changed post-9/11. I have been shooting in New York, in Paris after the recent riots, in London and in India. I expect to shoot for the next couple of years in these as well as other cities worldwide," Rakesh Sharma told IANS in an interview.
"I am examining the linkages between the global upsurge of politics of hate and intolerance and the most significant change in the global political economy - the move away from the notion of a Welfare State to that of the Corporate Nation State," he said.
While shooting for the film in New York last year, Sharma was stopped, detained and harassed by the city's police detectives.
"Ironically, the day I was 'detained' by New York Police Department (NYPD), I was shooting with an immigrant taxi driver and speaking precisely about this kind of police behaviour. I was actually filming exterior shots of the taxi driving through traffic for this sequence itself when I was harassed by police."
He filed a suit against the city of New York for being detained and harassed while shooting his film.
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